[PATCH 10/11] VFS: Cache request_queue in struct block_device

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Aug 29 2011 - 19:25:50 EST


From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This makes it possible to get from the inode to the request_queue
with one less cache miss. Used in followon optimization.

The livetime of the pointer is the same as the gendisk.

This assumes that the queue will always stay the same in the
gendisk while it's visible to block_devices. I think that's safe correct?

Cc: axboe@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/block_dev.c | 3 +++
include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index ff77262..f9899d5 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -1115,6 +1115,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, for_part);
if (!bdev->bd_openers) {
bdev->bd_disk = disk;
+ bdev->bd_queue = disk->queue;
bdev->bd_contains = bdev;
if (!partno) {
struct backing_dev_info *bdi;
@@ -1135,6 +1136,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part);
bdev->bd_part = NULL;
bdev->bd_disk = NULL;
+ bdev->bd_queue = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
disk_unblock_events(disk);
module_put(disk->fops->owner);
@@ -1208,6 +1210,7 @@ static int __blkdev_get(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode, int for_part)
disk_put_part(bdev->bd_part);
bdev->bd_disk = NULL;
bdev->bd_part = NULL;
+ bdev->bd_queue = NULL;
bdev_inode_switch_bdi(bdev->bd_inode, &default_backing_dev_info);
if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
__blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, mode, 1);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 178cdb4..7d8c1f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -657,6 +657,7 @@ struct address_space {
* must be enforced here for CRIS, to let the least significant bit
* of struct page's "mapping" pointer be used for PAGE_MAPPING_ANON.
*/
+struct request_queue;

struct block_device {
dev_t bd_dev; /* not a kdev_t - it's a search key */
@@ -679,6 +680,7 @@ struct block_device {
unsigned bd_part_count;
int bd_invalidated;
struct gendisk * bd_disk;
+ struct request_queue * bd_queue;
struct list_head bd_list;
/*
* Private data. You must have bd_claim'ed the block_device
--
1.7.4.4

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